Orthopedist

So today I went to the orthpedist for the bone bump one my ankle. The x-rays from my normal health care office hadn't gotten there because of issues with the computers, or something. So I got more x-rays. Turns out not only has my bump grown more, it has begin to grow independantly from my other skeletal growth. They can tell this because my growth plates are mostly fused but also because the bump has grown much more rapidly in the last few month than I have. In addition to faster growth the bump is no longer smooth it is sort of spiny and scallopped looking. Refer to, if you will, the above picture. This is because I don't have access to my films to show you the nature of my bones. Anyway the appearance of my ankle is of a very large piece of popcorn on the side of the larger ankle bone protruding from the spot by the skinny-er bone. It is protruding to the point at which it is actually causing the other bone to bow more than just slightly and is actually casuing bone damage beyond the bowing. So I'm going to have surgery from a tumor specialist who has the same name as my orthodontist. It never occurred to me that there were tumor surgeons, but it seems like that would be a pretty common surgery. I need to get an MRI before I can go into surgery. And therin lies the rub. I have braces, braces are made of metal, MRI's are giant electromagnets, magnets attract metals. You do the math. After the surgery I guess my bump is getting biopsied to see if I have cancer or something and if the need to take out more, or give some type of treatment. However, in spite of this I feel oddly relieved, this is the end of the line in almost four years of ankle pain and x-rays, this is the first time anyone has proposed to do anything. Strangly relieved is the phrase of the day.
In less grim news my english teacher has started us on Romio and Juliet, which we will be learning to perform with costumes. I have discovered a perfect job, a prosthetist, although I have trouble pronouncing the job title, it sounds like a perfect job. In college you get to study anatomy, power tools, material science and model making. It's only a four year bachelor of science program and then you get to help amputees by making their limbs. It sounds great. Chaptastic still hasn't posted my review, but they said sometime this week and it is only Wednesday.
Talk to you later, I'll keep you posted.